News

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva samples as well as blood," says Schleede, a geneticist who runs Herasight Inc.'s lab in Morrisville, N.C. "We also...

Genetic Selection

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal

Natural Election

By Jonathan Basile, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 04.29.2026

WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...

Society

Billionaires Anoint Biogeeks

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.20.2013
Hey Nobel Prize in Medicine! You’ve got competition. This morning, a bevy of techoscenti billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey...
Stem Cells

Monsanto, the Court and the Seeds of Dissent

By George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker, Los Angeles Times | 02.19.2013
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, will present arguments before the Supreme Court asserting...
Bioethics

Desperate for Children, They Were Swindled Out of $2 Million

By Central Valley Business Times, Central Valley Business Times | 02.19.2013

Tonya Ann Collins, 37, formerly of Modesto, has pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts of wire fraud in connection with...

Bioethics

The Brain is Not Computable

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.18.2013
Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the...
Biotech & Pharma

Sale of Personal Gene Data Condemned as 'Unethical and Dangerous'

By Jamie Doward, The Guardian | 02.16.2013
Private firms will soon be able to buy people's medical and genetic data without their consent and, in certain cases...
Bioethics

Parents of Down's Syndrome Woman, 21, Can NOT Have her Sterilised, Rules Judge

By Daniel Miller, Daily Mail | 02.16.2013
The parents of an 'affectionate' 21-year-old woman with Down's syndrome have been forbidden from having her sterilised despite their concerns...
Biotech & Pharma

Cancer Group Loses Federal Court Bid Against Human Gene Patent

By Rick Morton, The Australian | 02.15.2013
Cancer Voices Australia brought the case as it believed Myriad Genetics Inc, which owns the patent on the genes BRCA1...
Bioethics

Exaggerations and Misrepresentations Have No Place in Science Policy Debates

By Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics | 02.15.2013
Yesterday Intelligence Squared held a debate (watch it in its entirety here) on whether we should prohibit genetically...
Human Genetic Modification